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对函数形式稳健的空间自回归双重／去偏机器学习推断AI 解读

Spatial autoregressive inference is typically conditional on the spatial weights matrix, W, even though the underlying interaction structure is often unknown and empirical conclusions can be sensitive to its specification. This paper develops double/debiased machine learning inference for low-dimensional SAR parameters when the spatial interaction operator is learned flexibly from potentially endogenous characteristics. Within a maintained admissible support, interaction…

从指数到多项式：高维马尔可夫切换多重分形模型的精确滤波AI 解读

In this paper we propose a new formulation of the Bayesian Filter as used in the discrete-time Markov-Switching-Multifractal (MSM) model of volatility based on existing permutation symmetry within the likelihood structure. We show both analytically and empirically that such a formulation leads to a reduction in time complexity from $O(D^k)$ to $O(k^D)$ thereby significantly reducing the computational bottleneck associated with dimensionality. We compare the agreement between…

网络干扰下因果推断模型设定的随机化检验AI 解读

Analysis of experimental data becomes challenging when the underlying population is connected by a network. Exposure mapping is a common tool in the literature for defining and estimating spillover effects. These mappings reduce the dimensionality of the estimand, thereby facilitating identifiability. It is assumed that this mapping is correctly specified, leaving the choice of the exposure mapping to the analyst. This makes estimators of the spillover effect, such as the…

一般条件下极端事件因果效应的识别与推断AI 解读

Understanding the propagation of extreme events is important in many economic and environmental applications, yet most econometric methods for causal inference focus on average effects rather than tail behavior. This paper studies the identification of causal relations in extremes and derives resulting estimators and their asymptotic inference. As measure of causal dependence between extreme realizations of variables, we analyze the asymptotic behavior of the Causal Tail…

概率通胀预测的序贯有效推断AI 解读

Traditional statistical tests are poorly suited for the sequential evaluation of probabilistic forecast calibration. We address this limitation in macroeconomic forecasting by applying a new sequential testing method based on e-values. The e-value-based methodology enables anytime-valid inference. It allows practitioners to test against calibration continuously without invalidating statistical guarantees. To illustrate the framework's practical value, we apply it to…

统计显著发现有多大概率能够复现？AI 解读

In the empirical sciences, significance thresholds often determine whether findings are treated as evidence of an effect. This paper studies how likely findings that just meet conventional significance thresholds are to remain significant in replications of the same sample size. To answer this question, we estimate the expected replication probability conditional on a given p-value among published studies for experimental economics, psychology, and social science. We…

分类检验：从定量估计得出定性结论的新框架AI 解读

Social scientists rely on hypothesis testing to support their research conclusions, but the standard tests are designed for testing one hypothesis rather than adjudicating between rival possibilities. We develop a new framework, "classification testing", as an alternative. Instead of selecting one hypothesis to test, a researcher conducting a classification test decides what qualitative distinctions ("classes") are most substantively relevant; the test either assigns the…

通过 Riesz 校准最优传输将随机试验效应迁移至现实人群AI 解读

Randomized trials support causal inference, but differences between trial and target populations can limit the transportability of treatment effects to real-world settings. Many existing approaches model the propensity of trial participation and can therefore be sensitive to model misspecification and weak overlap of the covariate distributions. Optimal Transport (OT) offers a different route by comparing the trial and target populations directly in covariate space. We…

加速住宅太阳能系统采用：动态结构模型的政策分析AI 解读

Problem definition: Solar electricity generation is a strategic component of energy portfolios designed to meet growing demand and reduce carbon emissions. Governments and municipalities encourage household photovoltaic (PV) adoption through upfront rebates and tax credits. Limited budgets require principled, data-driven policies that account for the drivers of adoption and the effects of incentives on adoption rates. Methodology/results: We develop a dynamic structural…

贝叶斯趋势滤波的图依赖收缩先验AI 解读

Many common data dependencies can be characterized by graphs: time series data are sequential (chain graph), images appear as pixels (lattice graph), areal data are defined by neighboring units (spatial adjacency graph), etc. Graph trend filtering seeks to smooth and predict such data. However, classical trend filtering only incorporates the graph for estimation of the trend, which limits its adaptivity, and is brittle in the presence of missing data. Further, it lacks…

正值性违反下修正处理政策的因果效应：部分识别方法AI 解读

Modified treatment policies (MTPs) are interventions based on each individual's natural treatment value. We study mean outcomes under MTPs for continuous treatments, including exposure mixtures. Positivity is the standard sufficient condition for identifying these mean outcomes without extrapolation: policy-generated values remain supported given covariates. With multivariate treatments or continuous covariates, treatment--covariate combinations can be sparse or unsupported.…

固定时间维度随机系数动态面板模型的估计AI 解读

We study dynamic linear panel data models in which the lagged outcomes and strictly exogenous covariates carry individual-specific coefficients and the time-varying errors have a flexible covariance structure. With a fixed number of time periods, we point-identify the joint distribution of the random coefficients and the structural errors under a distributional form of strict exogeneity, and propose a closed-form, multi-step estimator based on the inverse Radon transform. We…

强化 CUPED：切换实验中的多变量协变量调整AI 解读

Controlled-experiment Using Pre-Experiment Data (CUPED) reduces the variance of the treatment effect estimator in online experiments by adjusting the in-experiment outcome metric using its lagged pre-experiment value. This method can be strengthened by enriching its covariate set while keeping it automatable and guarding against overfitting and covariate leakage. In switchback and related clustered experiment designs, this enrichment may be especially fruitful since…

非平稳时间序列中稳定区间的检验AI 解读

Many time series are not stable over their full observation horizon, but may contain scientifically meaningful periods during which a signal remains stable up to a prescribed tolerance. We formulate this as an existence test for stable intervals in a non-stationary regression model with dependent, locally stationary errors. For a signal $d$ derived from the mean function, including deviations from reference levels and derivatives, stability over duration $δ$ is encoded by $d_\infty=\inf_{t\in[0,1-δ]}\sup_{s\in[t,t+δ]}|d(s)|$…

用于动态神经潜在嵌入的潜在空间网络模型AI 解读

We introduce a novel latent space network model for analyzing multivariate time series of neural spike-train data. The methodology is motivated by an experimental study in mice, where neuronal responses were collected under a sequence of visual discrimination tasks. We adopt a latent variable framework to model the firing rates of aggregated brain areas, while simultaneously inferring the interactions between regions via a hidden network structure. This interaction network…

嵌套马尔可夫模型等式约束下的半参数效率理论探索AI 解读

Probabilistic models of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) with latent variables impose equality constraints on the observed data distribution beyond ordinary conditional independencies. These so-called Verma constraints arise in nested Markov models associated with Acyclic Directed Mixed Graphs, the latent projection of latent-variable DAGs. While nested Markov models have been extensively studied from the perspectives of graphical representation and causal identification,…

面向空间转录组与遥感数据的空间正交因子模型AI 解读

Principal component analyses are often applied to spatial data towards inference on latent modes of spatial variation. These analyses are widespread across domains including spatial transcriptomics and environmental sciences, where the modes of spatial variation are represented by corresponding factors of gene expression or remotely sensed time series measurements. Many methods have been proposed for incorporating spatial information into a probabilistic PCA framework;…

利用稳定平衡权重对多种目标参数进行简便协变量调整AI 解读

Covariate adjustment can improve precision in estimating treatment effects in clinical trials, and regulatory guidance increasingly encourages its implementation. Despite its benefits, covariate adjustment can require advanced statistical techniques or tailored approaches for different estimands, which can deter its use in practice. To address this issue, we introduce a simplified approach to covariate adjustment using stable balancing weights that applies directly across…

SAUSS：有限因变量模型的无偏模拟得分随机逼近AI 解读

Multinomial choice models allow flexible substitution patterns but become computationally demanding with many alternatives or observations. With a fixed per-observation simulation budget, simulated maximum likelihood introduces simulation bias, while each optimization step requires a full-sample likelihood evaluation. We propose Stochastic Approximation with Unbiased Simulated Scores (SAUSS), an averaged stochastic approximation based on conditionally unbiased mini-batch…

函数型时间序列的频域自助法AI 解读

A frequency domain bootstrap procedure for functional time series is proposed and applied to the class of spectral mean operators. The procedure works by first generating independent pseudo periodogram operators across the positive Fourier frequencies using an estimator of the spectral density operator involved. Functional replicates of the spectral mean operators of interest are then generated. Through an additive, projection-based decomposition of the bootstrapped spectral…

双重差分中以研究范围换取可信度AI 解读

When parallel trends fails for some treated cohorts but not others, the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT), an average over all of them, is exactly the target that becomes hard to recover. We propose changing the estimand rather than defending it. The credible-subpopulation local ATT (LATT) is the effect for the subpopulation of cohorts whose parallel trends is credible, and it is point-identified under parallel trends for the selected cohorts alone, a weaker…

部分识别离散响应模型的非参数贝叶斯推断AI 解读

This paper proposes a nonparametric Bayesian inference framework for partially identified discrete response models. The key observation is that these models map a reduced-form conditional choice probability to an identified set. Consequently, nonparametric Bayesian inference for the conditional probability mass function leads to Bayesian inference for the identified set. The inference framework nests conditional moment inequalities and linear systems with unknown…

存在干扰时网络实验的最优设计AI 解读

Experimental design under network interference is challenging because outcomes may depend on the treatment assignments of neighboring units. Existing approaches account for network structure but are typically assessed on small or simplified networks, limiting their applicability to complex real-world settings. We propose a network-aware treatment allocation framework that jointly accounts for allocation balance and network topology via an optimality criterion based on the…

二次型统计量的随机不变性检验及自相关应用AI 解读

Randomization testing with permutations is a very common nonparametric approach to hypothesis testing. However, randomization testing can be done with other group transformations including random rotations. In this work, we consider the problem of invariance in quadratic form statistics under a unified framework with closed form p-values. In particular, we propose a nonparametric variant of the classic Durbin-Watson test for testing for autocorrelation in time series data at…